Major Breaking News right now. Israel vowing to retaliate after iran launches a major Strike Firing about 200 ballistic missiles at israel. A Strike Iran assists was only a quote, portion of their power. Good evening. Im Wolf Blitzer along with Kasie Hunt, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. This is a Special Edition of this situation it is a sharp escalation between the two sides. One that could tip the region further into an allout War Air Raid sirens sounding across israel as flashes of light Lit Up the sky israels Air Defense System successfully knocking down most of irans missiles but there were some hits. This is one crater in central israel the massive strike coming a day after israeli forces launched a rare Ground Operation into southern lebanon, a mission aimed at taking out the uranium backed militia, hezbollah and tonight, iran is threatening what It Calls a Crushing Quote crushing response if israel carries through with its promise, promis
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
the cbs evening news begins now! good evening. we are live from here in manchester, new hampshire, with just hours until the first in the nation primary. i m norah o donnell. and it is now a two-person race. and today we spoke with nikki haley who is going head-to-head with donald trump. haley is canvassing the great state hoping for an upset tomorrow night but is trailing in the polls. we spoke to her about the former president and the issues including immigration and abortion rights. another major issue in this race, the economy. wall street hit record highs in both the dow and s&p 500. but on main street, it s a different feeling for millions of americans. even the blow of unemployment and growing wages, cbs s tony dokoupil spoke to people who say they are still struggling to make ends meet. but ahead of election day both trump and haley are holding rallies tonight. so let s begin with cbs s caitlin huey-burns who has been out speaking with voters. reporter: nikki
good evening, we are alive from here in manchester, new hampshire, with just hours until the first in the nation primary. i m norah o donnell. and it is now a two-person race. and today we spoke with nikki haley who was going head-to-head with donald trump. hailey is canvassing the great state hoping for an upset tomorrow night but is trailing in the polls. we spoke to her about the former president and the issues including immigration and abortion rights. another major issue in this race, the economy. wall street hit record highs in both the dow and s&p 500. but on mine street, it s a different feeling for millions of americans. even the blow of unemployment in growing wages, cbs s tony to coble spoke to people who say they are still struggling to make ends meet. but ahead of election day both trump and haley are holding rallies tonight. so let s begin with cbs s caitlin huey-burns who has been outspoken with voters. reporter: nikki haley is campaigning across new hampshir
for the world. much more on that on cnn news central ahead. we will see you tomorrow. an unexpected slowdown at the border, but will it last? dhs says it s too early to know. that s not stopping immigration politics, though, from heating up once again. hours ago a new bus of migrants arrived at the vice president s residence. four russian aircraft down inside russian territory. what this tells us about what the ukrainians can do now and in a much discussed spring offensive. the travel forecast is in, more than 42 million americans will be on the move this memorial day. are the roads and airlines ready? these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. so this morning there s a surprising quiet at the southern border as federal officials report a dramatic drop in border crossings, which is the opposite of what so many had predicted would happen after title 42 ended. they warned it would be chaotic for a while, remember? well, instead this was